Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Ryan
We just completed a new WordPress theme called ModXBlog (we don’t know why). It’s a really clean theme that has a lot of nice touches added. It’s AdSense-ready so you can immediately start making a few bucks with your blog and it has three different widget-ready sidebar areas.
It comes pre-coded for use with Breadcrumb-NavXT and Rob Marsh’s Post Plugin Library. The single post pages support Rob’s Similar Posts plugin by default, so make sure you activate that plugin when you install the blog. If you don’t, no big deal, the related posts area just won’t show up under the posts.
We’re going to build on this one in the future, with different color schemes and subject themes so check back soon for more downloads.
You can preview ModXBlog or download it here.
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Ryan
Summer Sale Extended through July 4th!!
WebAssist is having their Summer Sale through July 4, 2008, so now’s the time to buy some great Dreamweaver extensions. Included in the sale is WebAssist’s new CSS Menu Writer extension that makes CSS drop-down menus a snap, Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for generating complete CSS website layouts and even their ultimate extension set, Super Suite , which includes every WebAssist Dreamweaver extension in one money-saving bundle.
Take advantage of this sale while it lasts, because pricing on WebAssist extensions doesn’t get any lower! No WebAssist coupon codes are needed to take advantage of this special discount pricing.
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Posted on May 30th, 2008 by Ryan
The beta release of Dreamweaver CS4 is available for download at Adobe Labs. The beta release is good for 2 days of tinkering unless you provide your serial number from Dreamweaver CS3, Creative Suite 3 Web Standard, Web Premium, or Design Premium. You can then get a serial for the Dreamweaver CS4 beta and it will be extended until the final release is made available. Full Story →
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Ryan
MixedMedia is a free 3-column WordPress theme that includes built-in support for affiliate advertising, widgets and these WordPress plugins:
- WP-pagenavi - adds pagination navigation to multiple-page categories and archives
- Sociable - styled to fit nicely in the theme
- Breadcrumb-NavXT - adds breadcrumb navigation to the top of pages you select
- Rob Marsh’s Post Plugin Library - included support for Similar Posts, Recent Posts and Recent Comments
The theme is extensively styled with three different widget sidebar positions: top, left and right. This theme is styled more in-depth than our other themes, and there are currently three different versions: blue, green and red.
To see all versions or download, click here.
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Ryan
We just posted the first of several free AdSense-ready Dreamweaver templates. AdSensation is a simple tableless layout that includes pre-styled code for the most popular AdSense ad block sizes. The template includes a prominant 728×90 leaderboard ad at the top of the page, a 160×600 skyscraper down the left sidebar and a 250×250 square block at the top of the content section. A CSS style is included for 428×60 banners and the code can easily be modified to fit any other AdSense ad size.
The navigation is pure CSS with code that is very easy to modify. The free template includes the original sliced and optimized Adobe Fireworks file, so creating a completely custom look should only take a matter of minutes.
Preview AdSensation
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Ryan
We’ve been hearing a lot about CSS Menu Writer over the last couple of months and it’s finally here. Just released by WebAssist, CSS Menu Writer takes the hassle out of creating CSS menu navigation in Dreamweaver.
Menu Writer is a Dreamweaver extension that creates horizontal or vertical website menus through a tabbed wizard interface, similar to CSS Sculptor. As with Sculptor, Eric Meyer had a hand in making sure Menu Writer menus are standards compliant and valid CSS and HTML. The extension installs just like any other in Dreamweaver, and is accessible through the WebAssist toolbar. Full Story →
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Ryan
7/31/08 UPDATE: There has just been a new Dreamweaver extension for WordPress themes released called ThemeDreamer. Created by Virtuosoft, ThemeDreamer allows you to visually create and edit WordPress themes in Dreamweaver’s design view.
ThemeDreamer combines the WordPress header, sidebar, comments, footer, etc files into one live page in design view so you can easily edit your blog code or CSS file. We used it to create our new SoulVision theme that is available for download on our free WordPress themes page. ThemeDreamer is available now with a free trial download.
Back to original post:
We enjoy making Dreamweaver templates almost as much as WordPress themes. WordPress is a great blog platform to create themes for due to it’s simple code and the modularization of the page components. There are various ways to create a WordPress theme, but I prefer to use Dreamweaver for theme customizing.
It’s not difficult to customize a WordPress theme if you know a few shortcuts. If you prefer to code themes from scratch, there are several Dreamweaver WordPress extensions that simplify the task of inserting the required WordPress code. We have several listed on our WordPress tools page. The easiest way to create a custom theme for your blog is to download an existing theme that has the basic layout you want and customize the CSS and graphic elements to suit your needs. Full Story →
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Ryan
We did this affiliate marketing website template because we see way too many really bad squeeze pages. We don’t care for squeeze pages to begin with, but we thought we could at least help some affiliate marketers make a better presentation.
It basically takes the concept of the squeeze page and applies some eye candy to it. There are multiple box styles, a page curl box, formatted blockquote for testimonials, a photo testimonial format, a styled opt-in email form, a coupon-style box and more.
We had fun doing this template and we got a little humorous with the template preview. Just don’t take any of the information seriously please. You can preview FreshSqueeze or go to our website templates page for more information and templates.
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Ryan
Yup, another free Dreamweaver template! This one has a motorcycle theme, but can easily be customized to any other theme or color scheme. As with our other free Dreamweaver templates, High Velocity includes the Dreamweaver dwt template file, all the template images, pure CSS navigation, the original vector Fireworks document including all image slices, is Google AdSense-ready and is valid XHTML 1.0.
Preview or download High Velocity on our free templates page.
Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Ryan
We were busy over the weekend and created two more free Dreamweaver templates. DotCom and Fruit Company are XHTML valid templates with CSS navigation, AdSense-ready, and have pre-styled elements included in the templates. The Dreamweaver dwt files are included as well as the original Fireworks vector artwork used to create the templates.
Preview or download our two new templates on our Dreamweaver templates page.
